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EU Prize for Women Innovators

women-innovatorsAfter a successful first edition in 2011, the European Commission has launched the second edition of the EU Prize for Women Innovators to reward three women who have developed outstanding innovations and brought them to market. The contest is open until 15 October 2013 to all women who have founded or co-founded their own company and who have at some point in their career benefited from the EU’s research framework programmes or the Competitiveness and Innovation framework programme.

The first prize is EUR 100,000, second prize EUR 50,000 and the third prize EUR 25,000. With this Prize, the European Commission aims to raise awareness about the contribution, potential and importance of Women researchers to entrepreneurship and to encourage women to exploit the commercial and business opportunities offered by their research projects and become entrepreneurs.

More information are available on www.ec.europa.eu/women-innovators